SerialStateLineXer
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SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
To be clear, I did play the original Zelda a couple of years after it was released, and I liked it, but I was also eight years old and mildly autistic, so I didn't mind wasting hours systematically trying to burn every bush and bomb every exposed rock surface on the overworld. But in retrospect, that's just really bad design and not much fun compared to games that came out just a few years later.
I think that there was probably intended to be a social aspect to the exploration, where friends would get together, divvy up areas to search, and then share findings with each other. And we did do that a little, but not really systematically. But I lived in a semi-rural area and didn't have many friends who owned the game.
SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
The original Zelda doesn't really hold up, IMO. There's way too much reliance on brute-force trial-and-error, made even more annoying by the one use per screen limitation of the blue candle and the fact that bombs are consumable.
On the other hand, Zelda II is underrated.
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4mo ago
But they're only higher-paying than average because they have unusually high disutility. So in terms of net utility gain to the model, it shouldn't be any different.
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4mo ago
My two-bedroom apartment, built in 1973, does not have a 和室. It was renovated more recently, though, so maybe it had one before I moved in.
SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
YouTube Music is better in the very specific way that it allows you to play songs from YouTube videos on your phone in the background, without keeping the video up on your screen, and without having to download the video at all. If there's a lot of music you want to listen to that is on YouTube and is not licensed to any streaming services, it's the obvious choice.
Which is to say, its killer feature is facilitating light piracy. In other respects it leaves much to be desired, but being a fan of Showa-era Japanese pop music, for me they're the only game in town.
SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
This strikes me as kinda sanewashing or bad-faith
I don't claim or believe that what I'm describing is any more or less sane than what the OP is describing. It's just different, and I believe a more accurate characterization.
SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
seen as less offensive to call a woman a chestfeeder than to remind a man that he doesn't have breasts, and cannot breastfeed.
No, that's not why. "Chestfeeding" was coined for the benefit of trans men and enbies who don't want the word "breasts" being used to describe their breasts because they associate it with femininity.
TWs will talk all day long about how they can (sometimes, kind of, with pharmaceutical assistance) breastfeed. They love having breasts, and they love calling them breasts.
I'm not speaking as an apologist here. I'm just saying that the idea that they want to abolish words like "mother" and "woman" is not based on an accurate understanding of gender ideology. They want to redefine these words.
SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
listening to the facilitator explain to my genuinely confused Indian coworker why this description was problematic
I witnessed a similar exchange with another Indian guy at a presentation on pronouns. God bless the unassimilated and keep them safe from cancellation.
Wasn't it only a few months ago we were told this was an insane conspiracy theory and only a few weirdos would ever try to abolish "mother"?
To be clear, nobody actually wants to abolish the words "mother" or "woman." They want to use them in what they assert is "correct" manner, i.e. to refer to parents or people who personally identify as women, irrespective of sex. Conversely, terms like "birthing parent" and "people with uteruses" are used specifically because they include trans men, and are intended to be used only in contexts in which those characteristics are relevant.
For example, "Birthing Parent's Day" is mostly a GC meme. Trans activists are, to the best of my knowledge, not particularly interested in renaming Mother's and Father's day, because they still see "Mother" and "Father" as totally valid terms as long as they're used in a manner consistent with self-ID and not with biological sex. Trans men who have given birth would, for the most part, rather be honored on Father's Day than on a renamed Mother's Day, and vice-versa for trans women.
If you ignore the ideological aspect and the silliness of the phrasing, there's a certain set-theoretic elegance to it.
A Democratic nominee who pulls off an upset and wins this year is going to be campaigning on 12 years of blue government in 2028, a proposal that hasn’t won in 70 years.
That's not as meaningful as it sounds. We only have presidential elections every four years, so 70 years is 17.5 election cycles. And during that time Democrats have only lost the Presidency four times. This is a pattern based on four data points.
Hypothetically, if every election were a 50/50 chance, you would only expect Democrats to extend their hold on the White House to three terms one in four times, so they haven't done significantly worse than chance in that respect.
SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
Twitter in retrospect was clearly the cancellation platform par excellence, it doesn’t seem like TikTok or Instagram hold the same “weight” as image and video platforms.
It probably helps that tweets take a few seconds to read. You can scan through several hundred tweets in an hour and pick out some things to retweet or subtweet, while watching a video or reading a long blog post to decide whether to praise or shame takes much longer.
SerialStateLineXer
5mo ago
Various state-based nullification theory application (such as 'inter-state commerce doesn't apply to FDA if I already have the goods in-state')
It won't happen, but I would love to see Democrats take this all the way to the Supreme Court, and then have the Supreme Court accept this argument and roll back 90 years of commerce clause abuse.
SerialStateLineXer
5mo ago
Why do we keep on writing bloated shit?
Because hardware is good enough that we can get away with it, kind of.
I work at a large company with a couple thousand software engineers and fairly selective interviews, and it's unbelievable how much waste there is in terms of easy optimizations left undone. There are $10,000 bills just lying around all over the place, and people often drag their feet on fixing them even when I point it out and spell out the solution.
SerialStateLineXer
5mo ago
Jews will not infect us
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5mo ago
I'm not sure how much, but you do have to adjust these probabilities downwards to account for the fact that neither has (as far as we know) currently been diagnosed with a terminal illness.
In any given year, a large chunk, probably a majority, of the people who die will have started the year already having some kind of terminal diagnosis. If you're currently in relatively good health for your age, your odds of dying on the near future are significantly lower than what simple actuarial tables say.
SerialStateLineXer
5mo ago
Japan is not tropical, and Japanese food is not particularly flavorful, unless you count Japonicized continental foods like ramen and gyoza. As someone mentioned upthread with respect to British cursive, traditional Japanese cuisine is largely about purity and fresh ingredients that stand on their own.
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5mo ago
An interesting result of an economy where everyone is equally talented is that the least enjoyable jobs pay the best. People actually have to choose to do those jobs rather than being stuck with them because they're not smart enough to be engineers or whatever.
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5mo ago
No, but a reduction in marginal rates would. Lump-sum tax credits are basically welfare, with neutral or harmful incentive effects, while reductions in marginal rates have beneficial incentive effects.
The thing that's especially bad about blanket student loan cancellation is that it can't really be justified on either incentive or distributional grounds. That is, it doesn't encourage working harder or saving more, the way marginal rate cuts would, and it isn't targeted to people who are in particular need of help, the way traditional welfare is.
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5mo ago
They might also figure this makes it easier to issue and revoke access than if they had to issue/collect physical tokens.
Wouldn't token-based authentication give each token a unique code whose access can be revoked in the event that the token is lost or stolen?
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5mo ago
I think this is a general failing of LLMs. They're just regurgitating remixed training data, and when you ask weird questions like this, the likelihood that the relevant training data are dominated by trolling/joke answers is high.
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5mo ago
In some ways what we have now is the worst of both worlds. We have open borders for criminals and for low-skilled workers who are willing to work for low wages off the books, but we have tightly restricted immigration for highly skilled workers.
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5mo ago
Selective immigration, probably. We're not getting random Jamaicans.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
yuni
Do you mean yumi (bow)?
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Is it even remotely feasible to target cloud seeding to a 300-acre plot of land, or economically feasible to seed a large enough area to ensure rainfall on that plot?
I don't think so. The space requirements to add additional burnable bush and bombable wall sprites would have been negligible. But this would have trivialized the game's "puzzles," which consisted entirely of pushing every block, bombing every wall, and burning every bush. If the movable parts are labeled, there's nothing left.
Later games added more elaborate puzzles with multiple moving parts that could be solved without brute force, allowing them to label the moving parts without trivializing the game. I think that this probably could have been done on the NES with a 128 KB ROM, but I'm not sure.
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